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LANDSCAPE WITH THE FALL OF ICARUS!

LANDSCAPE WITH THE FALL OF ICARUS! . Poem. sweating in the sun that melted the wing’s wax unsignificantly off the coast there was a splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning. According to Brueghel when Icarus fell It was spring a farmer was ploughing his field

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LANDSCAPE WITH THE FALL OF ICARUS!

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  1. LANDSCAPE WITH THE FALL OF ICARUS!

  2. Poem sweating in the sun that melted the wing’s wax unsignificantly off the coast there was a splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning • According to Brueghel • when Icarus fell • It was spring • a farmer was ploughing • his field • the whole pageantry • of the year was • awake tingling • near • the edge of the sea • concerned • with itself

  3. Painting represented in the poem (ekphrasis) “sweating in the sun” –Fifth stanza. • “it was spring” • –First stanza. “a splash quite unnoticed” –Seventh stanza. “that melted the wings wax” –Fifth stanza. “Icarus drowning” –Seventh stanza. “the edge of the sea” -Forth stanza. “a farmer was ploughing his field the whole pageantry” –Second stanza. “concerned with itself” -Forth stanza.

  4. Thesis • ♥William Carlos Williams uses ekphrasis to illustrate that sadly our pride sometimes makes us fall all the way back, after being up so high, after trying to achieve one thing, and not focusing on the million others.

  5. Unknown terms • ♥Ploughing: takes action when soil is loosened with a plowing tool (tractor), for it to be prepared for the growing season to take place. (SPRING) ♣ • ♥Pageantry: ceremony, • ♥Tingling: sensation of slight prickles (sharp points), stings, or tremors (shaking; coldness, terror, etc) from cold, a sharp blow, excitement, etc.

  6. Language • ♥LITERARY DEVICES! • -Imagery; Shown in every stanza, except on the sixth one. • -Irony; Shown by contradiction. (oxymoron) • -Symbols; Sun (“brightens up” life; reality, but at the same time with all the light and shine being so bright, it blinds us from all the other stuff around us) & Sea (drowning us down, pushing us down, consequences)

  7. Structure & Style • ♥Seven stanzas • ♥Three lines in each stanza • ♥No punctuation at all –Makes the readers confused, because of the fact that there are no pauses, so it makes all of us wonder of where an idea stops, and where another idea begins. • ♥Each line is five words, or less • ♥Told in third person • ♥Enjambment is used throughout the whole poem • ♥Free versed • ♥Allusion: based on Brueghel knowledge of what happened, sea (setting) • ♥Theme: Falling • ♥Tone: Pre-Cautious • ♥Juxtaposition: places the sea on the last word of the first line of the forth stanza, and then on the stanza after that one (fifth) in the same position the sun is mentioned. (Comparison of both symbols) • Sound: ♥Rhyme Scheme; Couplet. (First stanza) • ♥Slant Rhyme • ♥Mood. • ♥Pun: “Pageantry” –Second stanza

  8. Technique • ♥The author made a really smart remark while writing the poem. • -Mentioning ‘the fall’ at the very beginning, but making us think of a physical fall rather than an emotional fall, the one which relates to EVERYONE, not just a few. Having so much faith and focusing your all on one thing, and forgetting about the million others.

  9. Questions to answer • ♥How does the tittle relate to the overall meaning of the poem? • ♥Was your understanding of the poem, changed after hearing more about it & being compared to life as a whole; if yes how? • ♥What were you first thoughts, after hearing the first stanza; regarding with the fall? • ♥Did you guys find any meaning to the poem not having punctuation?

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